More than a dozen former college basketball stars have filed an antitrust class action against the National Collegiate Athletic Association accusing the organization of exploiting student-athletes with an “illegal profit scheme” that monetizes the names, images and likenesses of student-athletes without their consent.
The Milberg Coleman Bryson Phillips Grossman senior partner and antitrust chair Peggy Wedgworth filed the complaint Monday in Manhattan federal court on behalf of plaintiffs that include members of the 2008 Kansas University Jayhawks national championship men’s basketball team.